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- I. HOGELAND. Portable Wardrobe for Trunks.

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Armar ISRAEL HOGELAND, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR rIO HIMSELF AND GEORGE P. ANDERSON, OF SAME PLACE.

PORTABLE WARDROBE FOR TRUNKAS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 226,855, dated April 2'?, 1880.

Application led September 27, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, ISRAEL HOGELAND, of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Wardrobcs for Trunks, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of my invention is to provide a lo folding device adapted to be inserted in a trunk in place of the ordinary tray for transportation, and which, when removed from the trunk and unfolded or extended, forms a wardrobe.

My invention consists in the new construction, arrangement, and combination of devices in a portable folding wardrobe, as will be hereinafter first fully described in the specification, and then set forth in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, in which like letters of reference in the different figures indicate like parts, Figure l represents a front 'elevation of my improved folding wardrobe unfolded or open, showing it in position to receive clothing. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same with the curtains removed, showing the construction and arrangement of parts more fully. Fig. 3 is a section of Fig. 2, taken at the line X X. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the top frame; and Fig. 5 is a sectional view of the device folded up, taken at the line X X of Fig. 3.

Referring now to the drawings, A represents a frame or tray-box having an opening, 3 5 m', vin its center to receive the tray L when the frame is extended. rllhe frame A is provided on the inner four corners with angular plates r, to which the lower ends of the folding standards K are pivoted by the pivots i. The standards K are each formed of two pieces jointed together by a pivot-bolt, n, and each joint is provided with a button, d, which is to be turned around after the two sections of each standard are extended, and prevent the standard from yielding at the joint.

The lower and upper ends of each standard K are each provided with a small projection, 10, which strikes against the upper outer edge of each respective angular hinge-plate r, to

5o which the standards are pivoted, as the standards are extended', and thus prevent said standards from tilting over or falling outward beyond a perpendicular line.

The upper frame, B, is constructed, as shown in Fig. 4, with an opening, m, in its center, to receive the tray L, when the Whole device is folded up, as shown in Fig. 5. The frame B is also provided with a cover, C, 'which may behinged thereto or left loose. The cover C is, provided with hooks's, for the purpose of 6o hanging clothing thereon. The upper ends of the folding standards K are also attached to the under side of the frame B by hinge-joints in the same manner as to the box-frame A below.

At each corner of the frames A and B are attached elastic cords a a., which are adapted to stretch out as the frame is opened and form supports for the corners of the curtain D, and prevent the curtain from being entangled with 7o the standards when said standards are folded down. The space between the standards and the box-frame A is sufficient to allow the curtain D to be folded therein.

Each side and the back of the device may be provided with cords b b, the ends of which are secured to the corners of the top and bottom frames, and the cords cross each other in the center, where they are secured together, thus forming braces to steady the frame when 8o open. To these cords the curtain D may be attached by loops, which will hold the curtain steady when opened out.

Around the top and bottom frames are secured wire slides H and H', to which the cur- 8 5 tain is secured by a hem. At the front of the wardrobe the said wires are marked E F, and they overlap each other and are bent up at E F', where they are secured to .the top frame. These Wires are supported by staples f, as 9oy shown, and the curtain-fronts slide thereon to close or open the front ofthe wardrobe.

rIhe device, when folded up, is represented in Fig. 5, and when in this condition it may be inserted in a trunk, the tray L may be removed, and any articles desired may be packed inside of the trunk. The tray L may then be inserted in the hole m of the upper frame and the rest of the trunk iilled. l

Vhen it is desired to usev the device as a 10o wardrobe it is removed from the trunk and opened out, as shown in Fig. l, to provide a, place for the clothing.

What I claim as new isl. In a portable folding wardrobe, the base A, provided with hinge-plates 1', combined Wit-h the jointed standards IC, the top frame, B, and the @over C, provided with clothes-hooks s, as and for the purpose specified.

2. In a portable folding Wardrobe, the combination of the base-frame A, having hingeplates r, the jointed standards K, with projeeting` stops p, the top frmne, B, With opening m,and cover C, provided with hooks s, the

elast-ie corner cords a, and the cord-braces b 15 Z1, as and for the purpose described.

3. The top B, provided with wire guides H F E at the top, combined With the bottom A,

ISRAEL HOGELAND.

Witnesses:

E. O. FRINK, G. H. BENNETT. 

